Daniel C. Drucker

Daniel C. Drucker
Daniel Charles Drucker (June 3, 1918 – September 1, 2001) was American civil and mechanical engineer and academic, who served as president of the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (now Society for Experimental Mechanics) in 1960–1961, as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1973–74, and as president of the American Academy of Mechanics in 1981–82.
Drucker was known as an authority on the theory of plasticity in the field of applied mechanics. His key contributions to the field of plasticity include the concept of material stability described by the Drucker stability postulates and the Drucker–Prager yield criterion.
Biography
Youth and education
Drucker was born in New York City. His father Moses Abraham Drucker was a civil engineer, and Drucker wanted to follow in his footsteps.
Drucker studied at the Columbia University, where he obtained his BSc in civil engineering in 1938. Next, in 1940 he obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering under Raymond D. Mindlin.
Career, honours and awards
Drucker taught at Brown University from 1946 until 1968 when he joined the University of Illinois as Dean of Engineering. In 1984 he left Illinois to become a graduate research professor at the University of Florida until his retirement in 1994.
He received the Murray Lecture and Award in 1967, title the seventh Honorary Member in 1969, Frocht Award in 1971 and title of Fellow from the Society for Strain Analysis (SESA), now known as the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM). In 1988, Drucker was awarded the National Medal of Science. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Drucker Medal is named in his honor. He was also awarded the Timoshenko Medal in 1983.
Daniel C. Drucker Medal
The Daniel C. Drucker Medal, awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, was named in his honor in 1998. Drucker was the first recipient of this annual award.
1998 Daniel C. Drucker
1999 Ascher H. Shapiro
2000 Philip G. Hodge
2001 Bruno A. Boley
2002 George J. Dvorak
2003 Leon M. Keer
2004 Frank A. McClintock
2005 Robert L. Taylor
2006 Alan Needleman
2007 Albert S. Kobayashi
2008 Thomas C. T. Ting
2009 James R. Barber
2010 Rohan Abeyaratne
2011 John W. Rudnicki
2012 James W. Dally
2013 Yonggang Huang
2014 Lallit Anand
2015 Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar
2016 Kyung-Suk Kim
2017 David Parks
2018 David M. Barnett
2019 John Bassani
2020 Glaucio H. Paulino
2021 Markus J. Buehler
Death
Drucker died from leukemia on September 1, 2001.
Selected publications
An evaluation of current knowledge of the mechanics of brittle fracture
Constitutive relations for finite deformation of polycrystalline metals : proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium, held in Beijing, China, July 22–25, 1991
Fracture of solids : proceedings of an international conference sponsored by the Institute of Metals Division, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Maple Valley, Washington, August 21–24, 1962
Introduction to mechanics of deformable solids
Macroscopic fundamentals in brittle fracture, 1967:
Mechanics of material behavior, 1983:
On fitting mathematical theories of plasticity to experimental results
Plastic design methods - advantages and limitations
Stress analysis by three-dimensional photoclastic methods
Stress-strain relations in the plastic range : a survey of theory and experiment
References
External links
Daniel C. Drucker, NAP, Memorial Tributes
1918 births
2001 deaths
American mechanical engineers
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
University of Florida faculty
National Medal of Science laureates
ASME Medal recipients
Scientists from New York City
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Engineers from New York City
20th-century American engineers
Brown University faculty
Fellows of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
Deaths from leukemia